Students at a high school in Arizona were investigated last week after some pupils shared on Snapchat an image of eight people lying on the ground in the shape of a swastika. The school district governing Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix said in a statement on Thursday that the high school would investigate and…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Usually, reports of alleged paranormal events feature people who suspect that their house is haunted, or believe that they’ve seen a UFO or received a signal from a long deceased relative. Rarely, however, is the main focus of such a report a Yiddish word. But that’s just…
(JTA) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that bars state and local governments from doing business with companies that boycott Israel and its settlements. The law, which was passed in March 2016, requires that any company that contracts with the state submit a written certification that it…
Three teens pleaded guilty to criminal damaging charges for twisting a large decorative menorah in the front yard of an Arizona family’s home into a swastika. The teens, who were arrested in March and charged as juveniles in the December incident in a residential neighborhood in Chandler, Arizona, offered the guilty pleas Thursday in Maricopa…
(JTA) — Fliers accusing Jews of creating anti-Semitic hoaxes were left in neighborhoods of Scottsdale, Arizona. The fliers reference the fact that a teen in Israel, believed to be Jewish, was arrested in connection with the threats made to nearly 150 Jewish community centers and Jewish institutions in the U.S. “Why do Jews feel the…
(JTA) — Graffiti including swastikas and the words “white power” were discovered on the auditorium of a Phoenix high school. The vandalism on the outside walls of the auditorium at Pinnacle High is being investigated by the police bias crime unit, the Arizona Jewish News reported. “No place for hate in Phoenix,” the city’s mayor, Greg Stanton,…
(JTA) — An Arizona teenager arrested for twisting a menorah in the front yard of a family’s home into a swastika posted an apology on Facebook. Clive Jamar Wilson, 19, one of four teens arrested on March 17 for the Dec. 30 incident, told the Ellis family of Chandler that he was sorry, the East Valley Tribune…
Artist Karen Fiorito is seriously committed to her anti-Trump protest: She’s put up picture of the president, flanked by nuclear mushrooms and two symbols that combine a swastika and a dollar sign, and spread it all over a huge billboard alongside Phoenix, Arizona’s Grand Avenue. Florito posted the sign on Friday; she says it will…
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